The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

This is Kemala, the Sumatran tiger at the Zoo.

Apparently she makes a good table.

The pictures get pretty gross so you might want to stop here.

She broke her lower canine, so she had to get a root canal.

It looks pretty awful.

It should be really long, like the one on her bottom right.

They put an IV in her back leg.

And a tube down her throat.

And a blanket to keep her warm.

They measured her pulse on her tongue.

Which is really spikey.

I have a feeling her tongue was pretty sore by the time they finished.

They moved it around a lot.

They had to give her lots of X-Rays.

And poke with spikey things.

And flush with flushing things.

Definitely not a good day to be a tiger.

Even a sleeping one.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

While she was asleep they gave her an ultrasound.

And checked her tail.

Then they finally finished and zapped her with the zappy thing.

And left her with a mouth full of gauze and a tooth that looked pretty much the same as when the started. But hopefully less likely to get infected.

Then they had to lift her up.

Then they put the net back over her and wheeled her out to recover.